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Henry Thomas Alken - Scenes in the Life of Master George – Bear Baiting

Scenes in the Life of Master George – Bear Baiting (1823)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
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Henry Thomas Alken

Henry Thomas Alken was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831.

Alken was born on 12 October 1785 in Soho, Westminster, and baptised on 6 November at St James's Church, Piccadilly. He was the third son of Samuel Alken, a sporting artist. Two of his brothers were George and Samuel Alken the Younger, also an artist. In 1789, the Alken family moved from Soho to 2, Francis Street East, Bedford Square.

Young Henry first studied under his father and then with the miniature painter John Thomas Barber Beaumont (1774–1841), also known as J. T. Barber. In 1801, Alken sent a miniature portrait of Miss Gubbins to the Royal Academy Exhibition. He exhibited a second miniature at the Royal Academy before abandoning miniature painting and taking on painting and illustrating. Early in his career, he painted sporting subjects under the name of "Ben Tally-O". Alken married Maria Gordon on 14 October 1809 at St Clement's Church, Ipswich. On 22 August of the following year later the couple's first son was baptised. Alken went on to father five children, of whom two were artists, Samuel Henry, also a sporting artist, known as Henry Alken junior, and Sefferien junior.

From about 1816 onwards Alken "produced an unending stream of paintings, drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity," and his soft-ground etchings were often colored by hand. When Alken was 26, he and his young family lived over a shop in Haymarket that belonged to print publisher Thomas McLean of the "Repository of Wit and Humour." McLean paid Alken a daily wage of thirty shillings, considered a good income at the time.

Alken died in April 1851 and was buried in Highgate cemetery. Although fairly affluent for most of his career, he fell on hard times towards the end of his life and was buried at his daughter's expense.

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Symptoms: of The Manager’s Judgement, of Being on Board a Packet, of Having Enough to Live Upon, of the Laddle Mis-Placed.

Symptoms: of The Manager’s Judgement, of Being on Board a Packet, of Having Enough to Live Upon, of the Laddle Mis-Placed. (between 1822 and 1827)

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Two horses and a pony

Two horses and a pony (1817-1818)

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‘Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving;’ …You Discover a New Way of Bringing Your Equipage into a Small Compass

‘Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving;’ …You Discover a New Way of Bringing Your Equipage into a Small Compass

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
[Hunting Discoveries] … Discover if you intend to do the thing well …

[Hunting Discoveries] … Discover if you intend to do the thing well … (1817)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Charging an Ox Fence

Charging an Ox Fence

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Poachers Surprised

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A hunter with dogs chasing a stag

A hunter with dogs chasing a stag (1817-1818)

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Sporting Satirist

Sporting Satirist (1834)

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‘Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders;’ ‘Swishing at a Rasper From Your Own Timidity and Mismanagement Cause the Horse to Swerve…’

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Steeplechasing; Four Riders Taking a Ditch and an Oxer

Steeplechasing; Four Riders Taking a Ditch and an Oxer

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What beau was arm’d completer…

What beau was arm’d completer… (1822)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Fox Hunters – Gone Away

Fox Hunters – Gone Away (1828)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Shooting, or One Day’s Sport of Three Real Good One’s

Shooting, or One Day’s Sport of Three Real Good One’s (1823)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
Sporting Satirist

Sporting Satirist (1834)

Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 – 1851)
‘Mr. Jorrocks Renounces the Acquaintance of the Yorkshireman’

‘Mr. Jorrocks Renounces the Acquaintance of the Yorkshireman’

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